Reliance Jio’s Happy New Year offer: Free services until March 31, 2017

NEW DELHI: Existing and newReliance Jiousers will be able to use data, voice, video and all of Jio’s applications for free until March 31, 2017.

All existing customers who already have free service until December 31, 2017, will see this deal extended to them from January 1 to March 31, 2017, and all new customers can avail of this deal from December 4, said Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani in an announcement today.Reliance is calling this the ‘Jio Happy New Year’ offer.

“In this period, customers will also be able to test-drive digital recharge, billing experience, using Jio Money wallet,” said Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani at an event today.

Ambani said Jio has also “fine-tuned” its fair usage policy to ensure all users get fair share of network capacity.He added that since it Jio started operations, as many as 900 crore voice calls from Jio to the networks ofits 3 largest competitors “were blocked.”Despite that, “in the first three months of its operation, Reliance Jio has grown faster than global tech giants Facebook, WhatsApp or Skype,” said Ambani, in an address today.“In 83 days Jio has crossed 50 million customers…Jio is now the fastest growing tech firm,” Ambani said.

He added that the benefits of Jio’s superior technology have been denied to customers “due to anti-competitive behaviour of incumbent operators.”Ambani also congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “bold and historic decision” to ban high denomination currency.